Today (19 July) global analytics technology company, Media iQ, has announced a significant investment round from private equity firm ECI Partners, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will see ECI take a minority stake in Media iQ to drive accelerated [...]

The Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report released this week (25 April, 2017) highlights the steady growth of advertising spend in the UK , with mobile contributing to 99% of new investment entering the internet ad market last year. Moreover, digital doubled [...]

The IAB UK and PwC released the 2016 UK Digital Ad Spend Report last week, with the news that the UK digital market grew 17.3% in 2016, with a total value of £10.3bn. The vast majority of growth was driven [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is due to come into force in May 2018. Every organisation operating in the digital industry must make sure it is fully aware what this means and how to be prepared for it. In [...]

If the daily headlines serve as a snapshot of the current economic and political landscape, one could be forgiven for thinking that we are living through rather dark times. The UK’s referendum vote to leave the European Union shook the country [...]

ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Ad tech funding in decline; An ad tech renaissance looming; IAB UK appoint new CEO; The Telegraph quadruple programmatic team; and global [...]

The great Victorian engineer designed much of the UK’s underlying connective infrastructure: dockyards, the Great Western Railway, suspension bridges, and innovations like tunnels beneath rivers. It was the GWR, Brunel’s greatest achievement, that connected Plymouth to London by rail. But, writes [...]

The UK’s media industry is at a precarious crossroads. There are regular reports in the press about the deterioration of ad revenues and the increasing dominance of the duopoly of Facebook and Google in the digital market. The News Media [...]

Wednesday (12 October), PwC and IAB UK released the latest digital ad spend study, with the long-awaited news that mobile ad spend (£802m) has taken over desktop spend (£762m) for the first time. In fact, it is mobile that has driven [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Publishers strengthened by EU proposal; Ligatus acquires LiquidM; Lower ad fraud rates for Media iQ; New Finnish publisher alliance uses Adform platform; [...]